Category Archives: data access

What’s wrong with the iPad?

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Ray

We have been using the wi-fi iPad for just under 6 months now and I have a few suggestions to make it even easier to use. Safari Aside from the problem with lack of Flash support there are a few … Continue reading →

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Cloud Storage Gateways Surface

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Ray

One problem holding back general purpose cloud storage has been the lack of a “standard” way to get data in and out of the cloud.  Most cloud storage providers supply a REST interface, an object file interface or other proprietary … Continue reading →

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Caching DaaD for federated data centers

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Ray

Today, I attended a webinar where Pat Gelsinger, President of Information Infrastructure at EMC discussed their concept for a new product based on the Yotta Yotta technology they acquired a few years back.  Yotta Yotta’s product was a distributed, coherent … Continue reading →

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Google vs. National Information Exchange Model

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Ray

Wouldn’t the National information exchange be better served by deferring the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) and instead implementing some sort of Google-like search of federal, state, and municipal text data records.  Most federal, state and local data resides in … Continue reading →

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15PB a year created by CERN

Posted on February 9, 2010 by Ray

That’s what CERN produces from their 6 experiments each year.  How this data is subsequently accessed and replicated around the world is an interesting tale in multi-tier data grids. When an experiment is run at CERN, the data is captured … Continue reading →

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What is cloud storage good for?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by Ray

Cloud storage has emerged  as a viable business service in the last couple of years, but what does cloud storage really do for the data center.  Moving data out to the cloud makes for unpredictable access times with potentially unsecured and unprotected … Continue reading →

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